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Building Romance (Romances in the Building) by SE Rose-review

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💛Building Romance (Romances in the Building) by SE Rose-review tour 💛

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date November 17, 2025

Ever since Camryn Tanner went to culinary school, she knew she wanted to own a café. She’s worked at one across from her apartment building for five years now, and the owner is ready to sell it. The question is: Can she create the café of her dreams?

Fletcher McDowell comes from a long line of bakery owners. His father has tasked him with opening their latest bakery in a trendy neighborhood in the city. After a playboy youth, Fletcher knows this might be his last chance to prove himself to his father. There’s just one problem—the bakery across the street from his.

It doesn’t take long for Fletcher to meet his rival, a beautiful woman with a sharp tongue and baking skills that far exceed anything his bakery can produce. Their rivalry is about to be tested when they are forced to work together to win a baking competition.

With Camryn’s lucky saltshaker missing and the two enemies vying to gain insider information about each other, the competition is off to a rocky start. But the true test is figuring out the sleeping arrangement when a pipe burst leads to a shared room.

Will these two get over their enmity and work together to win? And can they stop themselves from falling for their enemy in the process?

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REVIEW:Building Romance by S.E. Rose is book three in the Romances in the Building series.

We are back at the apartment building on Hearts Lane again. And this time we follow Cam and her adventures. Cam recently took over the bakery / cafe directly across the street from her apartment building. Between work and bakery jobs, she has worked for a solid decade towards her goal, of opening up her own bakery.

When her former boss, Phyllis decided to retire, she offered to sell the bakery to Cam. Everything fell into place. Then a large banner store posted that they were moving into the empty building down the street. Cam thought she was finally going to succeed at her goal – until this little snag came along.

Fletcher McDowell was picked by his father to oversee the opening of their new store – McDowell’s. The new store on Hearts Lane. He decides to make Cam an offer – he will buy her cafe. When Cam turns him down, he tells her the offer is on the table for the next 30 days. He then tells her he has enough money to put her out of business without buying her cafe. Cam reacts just as expected. This means war.

Cam may have the support of the neighborhood but this isn’t going to be easy. But when they both decide to combine forces to join a local baking competition. No one was expecting what began to happen. What a whirlwind of a story. I love being on Hearts Lane, it’s almost like you live in the apartment building with everyone. They have become home.

Wonderful story again, the romance between Fletch and Cam is unexpected and beautiful. But can these enemies find romance together or will the competition to be the number one store in the neighborhood cause a rift. Heart’s Lane is beautiful journey. Highly recommend the series.

Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Faking Romance
Finding Romance

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Reviewed by Erin K

USA Today & International Bestselling romance author, S.E. Rose lives near Washington D.C. with her family.

When she’s not wrangling her cats or keeping up with her kids, she’s plotting her next story.

She loves all things wine, coffee, and cats.

In her non-existent free time, she enjoys traveling, going to concerts, binging on her favorite shows, and reading, especially if it’s a good mystery or comedy. 

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Finding Romance (Romances in the Building) by SE Rose-review tour

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💜 Finding Romance (Romances in the Building 2) by SE Rose-review tour💜

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date August 25, 2025

Piper Dawson is trying to figure out her life. After recently graduating from art school, she’s crashing at her mom’s house and rethinking all her decisions. She’s never had a real job, a boyfriend, or any close friends. What she does have is a great aunt who needs her help, so she’s packing up her life into a suitcase and heading to the city.

On paper, Kasen Saddler seemingly has a great life. He has a wonderful, doting grandmother, great friends and neighbors, the perfect apartment, and a job he loves. After staying with his grandmother for a few months, he’s home and starting to realize his secret traumatic past might be holding him back. But this former military special operations soldier isn’t quite brave enough to confront his fears…that is until a certain woman turns up in his apartment building’s hallway trying to find her aunt’s missing necklace.

What starts as a hunt for Piper’s aunt’s necklace, soon turns into Kasen agreeing to give the relationship clueless Piper dating lessons. There’s only one problem. The more time Kasen spends with Piper, the more he doesn’t want to stop helping her as a “practice” boyfriend.

Piper knows there’s more to Kasen than he’s willing to share. She wishes their relationship could be real. She also wishes she could stay and spend more time with all the new friends that she’s made in the building. But her time is running out. She’s already agreed to stay with her dad.

Will the secretive Kasen let himself finally find romance with the unlikely woman who fell into his world and stole his heart, or will Piper leave before they both realize what was pretend to begin with turned into something very real?

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REVIEW: Finding Romance is book two in the Romances in the Building series by S.E. Rose. We are back in the apartment building and love is in the air. Kasen has just returned from taking care of his geandmother for an extended period of time. Piper has come to stay with her great-Aunt Cornelia, who tripped over her basket of crochet yarn and broke her ankle. She is having surgery and would like for her great-niece Piper to come stay with her and Margie and help take care of her.

When Cornelia loses her necklace, Piper sets out to find it and thats when she meets Kasen. And in her words – he is the hot-as-hell grumpy neighbor.

There is an obvious attraction, but when Kasen finds out that Piper has never beennon a date, he offers to take her on a practice date. As they begin to soend more time together their feelings begin to grow and what ensues is an amazing romantic love story.

I highly recommend this wonderful apartment building and all those that dwell there!

Click HERE for Erin’s review of book one FAKING ROMANCE

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Reviewed by Erin

 

USA Today & International Bestselling romance author, S.E. Rose lives near Washington D.C. with her family.

When she’s not wrangling her cats or keeping up with her kids, she’s plotting her next story.

She loves all things wine, coffee, and cats.

In her non-existent free time, she enjoys traveling, going to concerts, binging on her favorite shows, and reading, especially if it’s a good mystery or comedy. 

Keep up with SE Rose and subscribe to her newsletter: https://bookhip.com/LSMKWL

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Faking Romance (Romances in the Building) by SE Rose-review tour

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💜Faking Romance (Romances in the Building 1) by SE Rose-review tour💜

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date May

Roxy Benedict’s dream of opening a romance bookstore is coming true. Finally, things are going her way, until her new neighbor starts complaining that she’s too loud.

Grayson Porter loves his quiet building. But when a noisy tenant moves in, he’s left wondering if he can finish composing a soundtrack for a film. As a musician, this could be his big break. If he doesn’t get some peace and quiet soon, he’s going to lose his mind.

But Grayson has another, potentially bigger problem. He might have lied to the film producer that he had a girlfriend. When their landlord decides to set them up on a blind date for a party with the film’s cast and crew, the two are shocked and about to call off their date, until the film’s producer takes a liking to Roxy. Roxy sees her chance to win over her grumpy neighbor and Grayson sees a chance to impress a potential client. The question is: How long can this truce last?

And then, there is their apartment building. A mystery over a missing neighbor has Roxy and Grayson spending even more time together. These two neighbors are faking romance for their own benefit, but will the playing pretend turn into something more?

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REVIEW:Faking Romance is book one in the Romances in the Building Book Series by S.E. Rose.

Roxbury Benedict decides to go for her dream. She wants to open a romance bookstore.

The story opens with her leasing a storefront to open her dream bookstore called Happily Ever After Romance Bookstore.
And so begins Roxy’s journey at One Eleven Hearts Lane. The building is full of an eclectic range of tenants. And you quickly come to realize they are a family. Not by blood, but by proximity. While getting her bookstore ready to open, Roxy quickly finds out that the tenant living on the second floor, Grayson Porter, dislikes noise. While putting some furniture for the store together she has the pleasure of meeting Mr. Porter when he knocks on her door asking her to not make noise for the next two hours. He is a composer and is writing a score for an up and coming movie and this is his big chance. He can’t allow a little noise to sideline his project.

When Roxy agrees to not make noise, she tells him that she can paint for a bit. And again – he asks her not to do that either, as the fumes cause him migraines. Roxy is beginning to understand her grumpy upstairs neighbor. After weeks of getting the store ready for opening Roxy agrees to a blind date, set up by her landlord Al. Al asks her to meet her blind date at a bar down the street. When she arrives she realizes Al has set her up with her upstairs neighbor Grayson. While Grayson and Roxy are both in shock that Al would have the audacity to set them up together they actually end up having a really good time.

Realizing that they have misjudged each other immensely they decide to enter into an arrangement that benefits both of them.
Grayson needs a fake girlfriend, since he told the producer of his movie that he had a girlfriend. He isn’t sure why he lied and didn’t know how to take it back. Roxy actually enjoyed herself with Grayson, and if entering into this arrangement will get him to stop complaining about the noise, she is all for it.

Will this arrangement work out, or will it cost them everything?

I absolutely loved this book. It was hilarious, steamy and magical all at the same time. Some of the great parts of the book: Someone leaves flowers on a bench in the park across the street from their building everyday.

It’s a great mystery who is doing this. And the notes that are on the flowers, just touch people’s lives! it’s quite beautiful.

My favorite line from the book: “I don’t pay attention because I’m too busy kissing my dream guy, my very own real grumpy-sunshine, enemies-to-lover, fake-relationship, one-bed-trope, neighbor-romance book boyfriend.”

Definitely recommend, can’t wait for the next book in this series! I hope that every tenant gets their love story!

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Reviewed by Erin K

 

USA Today & International Bestselling romance author, S.E. Rose lives near Washington D.C. with her family.

When she’s not wrangling her cats or keeping up with her kids, she’s plotting her next story.

She loves all things wine, coffee, and cats.

In her non-existent free time, she enjoys traveling, going to concerts, binging on her favorite shows, and reading, especially if it’s a good mystery or comedy. 

Keep up with SE Rose and subscribe to her newsletter: https://bookhip.com/LSMKWL

To learn more about SE Rose & her books, visit here!

Connect with SE Rose:

https://linktr.ee/seroseauthor

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